Against the backdrop of a bitterly fought local election, India is witnessing the unusual spectacle of Prime Minister Narendra Modi locked in a bitter verbal duel with his predecessor and accusing the opposition of holding secret meetings with Pakistani officials to impact the vote.

Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski is in hot water over decade-old payments he received as a consultant to a giant Brazilian construction company at the center of Latin America''s biggest graft scandal.

Reuters news agency called on Myanmar to immediately release its two journalists who were arrested for possessing 'important secret papers' obtained from two policemen who had worked in Rakhine state, where violence widely blamed on security forces has forced more than 625,000 minority Rohingya Muslims to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.

The number of women being murdered in Mexico has risen sharply over the last decade amid the country''s drug war, more than wiping out two decades of gains when the rate fell by half, a study said Wednesday.

Poland''s new prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, and powerful ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski attended ceremonies Wednesday marking 36 years since the country''s communist regime used tanks and troops to clamp down on the Solidarity freedom movement.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told an international summit Wednesday that the United States was unfit to mediate the Mideast conflict, marking a major policy shift after decades spent courting American goodwill.

In a groundbreaking trial in a country where sexual violence is rampant and perpetrators often go unpunished, a military court in eastern Congo on Wednesday sentenced 12 militia members to life in prison for the gang-rapes of dozens of children as young as 11 months old, and for murder.

A new African military force to counter growing extremism in the Sahel region should see victories 'in the first half of 2018,' France''s president said Wednesday after hosting a summit to boost support for the five-nation effort.

A much-awaited trial involving the lone surviving suspect in the November 2015 extremist massacres in Paris will likely be postponed due to the appointment of a defense lawyer who still has to prepare.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told an international summit Wednesday that the United States was unfit to mediate the Mideast conflict, marking a major policy shift after decades spent courting American goodwill.

A prosecutor urged U.N. judges Wednesday to overturn the acquittals of a prominent Serbian ultranationalist on atrocity charges, saying that a failure to do so would inflict lasting damage to the legacy of the groundbreaking war crimes tribunal.

French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday after a conference of presidents, princes and diplomats to boost a young African military force countering growing extremism in the Sahel region that he foresees victories there 'in the first half of 2018.'

Myanmar''s government said Wednesday it has arrested two journalists working for the Reuters news agency for possessing 'important secret papers' obtained from two policemen who had worked in Rakhine state, where violence widely blamed on security forces has forced more than 625,000 minority Rohingya Muslims to flee into neighboring Bangladesh.

Police say a head-on collision between a car and a truck in Switzerland''s Gotthard Tunnel has left two people dead and forced the temporary closure of the tunnel, a key transit route through the Alps.

The Myanmar Press Council said Wednesday that police have arrested two journalists working for an international news organization on suspicion of possessing 'secret police documents' related to the ongoing crisis in Rakhine state.

'The United States must initiate and lead an aggressive, urgent diplomatic effort to freeze North Korean nuclear and missile development and reduce regional tensions,' the retired generals and admirals say in a rare public plea.

The Palestinian president said Wednesday his people will not accept any role for the United States in the Mideast peace process 'from now on,' following President Donald Trump''s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

European Union nations have agreed to set quota levels that ensure more sustainable fishing in the Northeastern Atlantic and the North Sea, but environmentalists insist the bloc is behind in its schedule to end overfishing by 2020.

The man accused of carrying out a bomb attack in New York City''s subway system was influenced by the sermons and writings of a radical Muslim preacher, but appeared to have no known links to local radical groups, Bangladeshi officials said Wednesday.

Leaders and top officials from Islamic nations gathered in Turkey on Wednesday for a summit that is expected to forge a unified stance against President Donald Trump''s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

When Russia launched a military campaign in Syria two years ago, President Vladimir Putin sought to save his ally from imminent collapse and break Russia''s international isolation over a crisis in Ukraine.

Abdellatif Nasser got what he thought was the best news possible in the summer of 2016: One of his lawyers called him at the Guantanamo Bay detention center and told him that the U.S. decided he no longer posed a threat and could go home to Morocco.

Philippine legislators have voted to approve President Rodrigo Duterte''s request to extend martial law in the country''s south by a year due to what the military says are continuing terrorist threats despite the defeat of a disastrous pro-Islamic State group siege.

A top Indonesian politician accused of involvement in one of the country''s biggest corruption scandals told a court on the first day of his trial he''s suffering a stomach complaint, forcing a postponement while his medical condition is checked.

The U.N. political chief said Tuesday that senior North Korean officials told him during his visit last week 'that it was important to prevent war' over the country''s rapidly advancing nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

The U.N. political chief said Tuesday that senior North Korea officials told him during a four-day visit to the country last week 'that it was important to prevent war' over the country''s rapidly advancing nuclear and ballistic missile programs.